Co-Investigator, Enhancing Resilience in Urban Informal Settlements: Understanding and Strengthening Informal Systems, ACU Knowledge Exchange Climate Cohort Grant [£37,496], A regional project in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Research Seed Grant in collaboration with Brown University, USA and Boston University USA on “assessing the effectiveness of health systems – case of 2015 Kathmandu earthquake“, selected under R2HC (Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises) by Enhancing Learning & Research for Humanitarian Assistance (ELRAH), UK, 2016.

Research Seed Grant in collaboration with COMSAT University, Pakistan for undertaking a research study on the “Effectiveness of Faith Based Organizations in disaster response – Case studies in Sri Lanka and Pakistan“, supported by Humanitarian Innovation Initiative at Brown University, USA, 2017.

SPIN (Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India and Nepal) regional seed grant for the research on “Examining The Heat Stress Impact on the South Asian Vulnerable Urban Population – A System Thinking Approach” supported by IRDR-ICoE Taipei under the 2018 Advanced Institute – Heat Stress Sensors, Early Warning and Information Technology in collaboration with Academia Sinica, Taiwan and International Science Council Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Malaysia, Jan 2019.